. In happy far-away land . y had cut off the branches theyloaded the trunk, with other tree trunks, on a sledge and dragged it to thefrozen river, where it stayed till the ice melted in the spring, and the swiftstream carried it down to the city. In the edge of the city men caught it withhooks and spikes, dragged it ashore, and left it in the sun till it was well dried and seasoned, as they called it. After that,saws cut it into blocks, and last of all, a latheturned these blocks into round balls. The little ball was the smallest that wasmade from the tree he grew in, but he wassound and perfe
. In happy far-away land . y had cut off the branches theyloaded the trunk, with other tree trunks, on a sledge and dragged it to thefrozen river, where it stayed till the ice melted in the spring, and the swiftstream carried it down to the city. In the edge of the city men caught it withhooks and spikes, dragged it ashore, and left it in the sun till it was well dried and seasoned, as they called it. After that,saws cut it into blocks, and last of all, a latheturned these blocks into round balls. The little ball was the smallest that wasmade from the tree he grew in, but he wassound and perfect, without aknot or crack in him. Hewentwith a great many other ballsto a shop, where he lay on ashelf waiting to be sold. Onthe other shelves in the shopthere were balls of all thekinds you can think of. There were big, burly foot-balls, hard baseballs, very trimand neat in their white coats, light tennis balls, lit-tle golf balls, and rubber balls of all sorts and sizes,from large, gaily painted balls, soft enough for a. LITTLE TEN-PIN BALL 21 baby to play with, to hard black balls which bounce when they are flungdown, and sting the hand when you try to catch them. The little ten-pin ball was a very friendly fellow, and he would have likeddearly to roll about on the shelf and talk to the balls about him, but the veryfirst time he tried to move nearer the big foot-ball at the end of the shelf, alarge ten-pin ball whispered to him to stay where he was. The foot-ball is a rough, rude fellow, the large ten-pin ball said to ten-pin balls never make friends with balls like him. He looks verywell on the outside, but I can tell you that inside he is quite hollow. We ten-pin balls have stout hearts and are solid and true all the way through. But why will you not let me make friends with those wooden ballswhich have each a gay ring painted on them ? asked the little ball. Theyare wooden like us, and stout hearted, too. The croquet balls are wooden, to be sure, answered the larg
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